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stokehold

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted dehkloostStarts with SEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired

Word origin

From stoke + hold.

Used in a sentence

  • Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold.
  • A plume of smoke went nearly straight up from the funnel, and now and then the clang of furnace-slice and shovel rose from the stokehold, for Mayne hoped to float the vessel next tide.
  • The noise and roar of the engines was ever in my ears, and the peculiar ocean-like noise of the stokehold ... and the metallic clang of coal as it shot from shovels....

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